Block-printed felt-base rug and method of making same



May 25, 1926. 1,sss,2s

N. L. CAMPBELL' BLOCK PRINTED FELT BASE RUG AND METHOD oF MAKING sm:

Filed Nov. 26, 192s y having on the top o r also on the top of the Patented May 2K5, 1926.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oFFicE.

EW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T0 OI- SALEM, NEW JERSEY, A CORIORATION OF NEW J Oli-IN B." CAMPBELL MANU'- BLOCK-PRNTED FELT-BASE RUG- AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

rl`he principal Application filed November 26, 1923. Serial' No. 677,014. 'i

objects of the present in vention are to cile-ct a marked economy in the cost of blocks the printing operation 5 wide range of latitude and ina sign; to facilitate changing to eff chinery and in provide for a in the matter of detlie designs on the machine; to reduce the number of blocks and frames required;

ect a saving in the individual blocks; to entirely eliminate border blocks;

quired color effects wi fewer blocks.

In the practice of the ni and to obtain given or retli the iise of much etliod of the present invention the face of the iinpregnate felt base is completel it with a composition o plete coating of pai propriate for and is the ground of of felt base linoleiim rug itself. Rug centers, or design, are printe y covered byI coating f paint and this coinnt composition is apthe border s or is the border usually in solid color d on the center portion c 1 of this coating with a block vor blocks of less effective length than the width of the carpet margins at eachvside an leaving unprinted interrupting such printing at intervals by putting a block out of action to provide unprinted crosswise ranging stripes constituting end margins, then,

if desired, continuously printing thecarpet with a blockv or blocks of the saine effective the carpet, providi the two tones of center printing an dueto coating, and

" at the center of the s or mats. A. rug or ma length d of whi as the width of ng a broken pattern on hich one is due to rug ch the other is finally cutting the carpet tripes to provide rugs t of the invention may be said to comprise a felt base primarily coated position providing and having on the t of said coating a i' color ci' solid design,

a border op of the ug c thus providing another tone,

a broken pattern printing on the top` and rug center printing.

matic and kin Whic Figure lhmay be be a plan View of e the said in a block of enter,

formed by printing all over its face with a paint comground or tone central portions usually of one and, if desired,

f the printed center and exposed border coating or patterns formed by surfaces of the coating invention referto the accompanying diagrammatic an sche-y 1i ennemi wir# te telit the width of the carpet and of a block. of less width than the carpet shownas arranged beside it but independently movable of it, and

Fig. 2 niay be said to be a plan viewL of a carpet produced according to the invention and adapted to be cut up into rugs embodying features of the invention.

Referringto the drawings the entire snrface of the carpet l is coated with a compo- Y the other `tone in cases where two-tone rugs are printed. The block orint the rug centers are shorter thanthe Width of the carpet and operate upon its central portion leaving coating to constitute the border or ground. kBetween rug centers as 2, 2 and 2", the blocks 3 are held out of action, thus leaving the coating or border ground exposed so that when the carpet is cut as on the dotted lines there is produced a number of rugs or mats each having as aborder part of the original coated surface of the carpet and having block printed rugcentei's. So far the invention has been described' as if there were but vtivo colors, one the coatying on the carpet being a border and the other the printed rug center. However, additional block orblocks 5 'of the full width of the carpet may will print a pattern onthe border and rug center including the spaces between the rug centers, thus as indicated at the right in Fig. 2 there can be produced what in general may bel called a border tone, a rug center, andk a pattern all over both. Those skilled in the art will understand that each block 3 Will in general print a solid color but that is not in all cases necessary and that the block or blocks 5 will usually print an allover pattern like, for example spots, but that is not in all cases necessary. To further exlaiii the invention itl ni'ay be said that the locks are iisiially eighteen inches wir eaiid seventyetw'e inches long se that, by making or blocks 3 which be employed and theyy the carpet face exd posed at each edgeas at 4L, to permit the border and top the blocks 3, lifty-four inches long, disposing them symmetrically With the center of the machine and holding or otherwise preventing them from. printing at the ends ol the rugs, each rug Will have a nine inch border all around although no border blocks are employed. In the matter ot color there is of course great latitude because the number of blocks can be increased or diminished but evidently the color adaptation and utilization of the coating oit paint on the :tace of the carpet for the border greatly increases the color ei'ects that can be produced with a given number oi blocks, thus simplifying and reducing` the size or number el trames oi the printing machine and also facilitating and cheapening the printing operation. No border blocks are required and their cost is therefore laved and `very good eti'ec-ts can be produced by the employment of blocks Which are comparativeiy cheap to cut or make.

In additionto the blocks of which tivo, 3 and 5 are illustrated, but ot Which the number may beincreased, and in fact the block 5 may be omitted, there can be also provided line top print and masker blocks as will be readily understood, and the line print blocks may be adapted to print between and on top of the border and the rug center and in any other location that may be desired. For example there is shown at the left in F ig. 2 a pattern of spots printed by a block 3 on top of a solid center printed by other blocks 3 on top of the primary coating.

Obviously modilications may be made in details of procedure andin mere matters o1 form Without departing from the spirit of the invention which is not limited as to such matters or otherwise than as the prior art and the appended claims may require.

I claim;

l. The method ot' making block printed felt base two-tone rugs which consists in primarily coating the entire area of the carpet, block printing rug centers upon the carpet leaving the primarily coated carpet face exposed between and at the margins of the rug centers to provide rug borders, and cutting the rugs apart between the ters. n

2. The method et making block printed felt base rugs which consists in prin'iarily coating the entire area ot' the carpet, block printing rug centers upon a carpet leaving the carpet face exposed at all the margins ot' the rug` centers, block printing on the rug centers and on the exposed portions ol' the :tace ot' the carpet with additional (op print patterns, and cutting the rugs apart between the spaced rug centers.

3. The method ot' making block printed felt base rugs which consists in primarily coating the entire area of the carpet, printing the center parts of the carpet with a block of less effective length than the width of the carpet leaving an imprinted margin at each side and interrupting` such printing at intervals by putting the block out oi action to provide crosswise ranging stripes, then continuously printing the carpet with a. block of the same effective length as the Width of the carpet, and iinaliy cutting the carpet at the stripes to provide rugs or mats.

L The method ot making block printed felt base rugs which consists'in primarily coating the entire area ot the carpet, printing the center parts oit' the carpet with a block of less effective length than the width of the carpet, leaving an imprinted margin at each side and interrupting such printing at intervals by putting the block out of action to provide crossvvise ranging stripes, and finally cutting the carpet at the stripes to provide rugs or mats.

5. As an article of manufacture a tv.'otone block printed rug comprising a telt base, a primarily coating or lilm co-ezitensive with the face of the base and consisting of a paint composition appropriate tor rug borders, and a rug center or center ground formed by paint deposited on the surface of the central portion ot said primary coating or film, the marginal portion ot primary coating or film being exposed to constitute a border or border ground around all four edges of the rug.

NE1L L. CAMPBELL.

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